👨‍💻Coding

I don't call myself a 'programmer', nor a 'software developer ', nor an 'engineer'. I don't have a formal education in writing code nor have I been formally employed in such a capacity.

Though I have programmed in a variety of languages, released a handful of tools, and supported users of my tools - it was never in my job description and I was never compensated as a programmer.

Instead of 'programming computers', what I do is 'coding', and I use mostly high level languages and scripting languages to do it.

In 2023, I started a project to learn enough about modern software development to write an app. You can read about the journey via the Blog Chain: Write an App.

You can view some of my projects on my GitHub Profile.

💡 More of my tools, services, and media preferences can be found on Uses.

Coding Experience & Projects

SQL

• Customer Scoring
• Data Integrity Analysis
• ETL Salesforce.com Data Replication
• Campaign Reporting and Data Analysis

C#

• "Qbert" CSV Processing and Insertion into Salesforce and Eloqua:
• "CodeSpider" web crawler to identify out of date code
• "CSVCompare" to dedupe email lists using MD5 hashes

R

• Customer Propensity Scoring using:
  • Neural Nets
  • Random Forest
  • Decision Tree
  • Linear Regression
• Social Network Analysis
• MBTI Clustering of Fictitious Characters
• Fitbit Clustering
• Shopping Basket Analysis

Python

• Personal Productivity Task Management Analysis
• Library Sciences Authorship Analysis

ETL

• Salesforce.com Data Replication to MySQL DB

Lua

• Custom user interface for a video game ("AlphaZero")

React

• custom personal website ("AugustRush") as an exercise in using Gatsby.js static site generator

HTML

• various websites

Qbasic

• as a child, wrote lots of "Choose your own adventure" games
• "screen savers"
• An arena fighting game with a friend

Misc

I also learned to use several no-code / low-code automation tools, ETL tools, and how to use both SOAP and REST apis. I may have crashed Salesforce.com once but you cant prove it and I'd deny it if you tried. More recently, I've been exploring web stacks using NPM, Markdown (see: TIL (Today I learned)#Infrastructure Stack) and static site generators.